A head-on collision Monday morning sent two drivers to the hospital. One was flown to the hospital by AirCare in critical condition.

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According to North Carolina State Trooper Tony Chambers, Tina Louise Smith, 40, of 181 Kinsington Lane, Mount Airy, was the driver of a 2001 Mazda pick-up truck. She was traveling north on Reeves Mill Road when she collided with Annie Lee Potts, 65, of 135 Blackberry Lane, Mount Airy, who was driving a 1989 Oldsmobile Cutlass station wagon.

James Thomas Blevins, 21, who was a passenger in Smith’s truck, said Potts pulled out into the road from Direct Lane. He said his fiancée was unable to avoid the collision. Troopers at the scene noted that there were no skid marks from either vehicle.

Trooper Vann Tate estimated that Potts was traveling at 50 miles per hour in the 55 mph zone when the vehicles collided. He said he thinks Potts had made a U-turn at Direct Lane and crossed the center line into Smith’s path.

Tate said Potts, who was was airlifted by AirCare, was in the Intensive Care Unit at Wake Forest Baptist Health at 5 p.m. Monday. He said Smith, who was taken by ground, will remain in Baptist for treatment as well.

John Shelton, director of Surry County Emergency Services, said both Smith and Potts were unresponsive when the first responders arrived on the scene. Shelton said Smith was in stable condition at the scene.

Members of both the Mount Airy and Pilot Mountain rescue squads worked to free the drivers of both vehicles. They had to use the jaws-of-life to free Potts.

Nathan Webb, assistant chief of the Mount Airy Rescue Squad, said it took 10 minutes to extricate Potts from her vehicle.

Gray Childress, a resident of Reeves Mill Road, said people speed down the road daily and he wishes everyone would slow down. He suggested that the speed limit on that road be lowered to 35 miles per hour.

The Bannertown Volunteer Fire Department assisted at the scene by setting up a landing zone for AirCare in the yard behind the Holly Springs Ruritan building, standing by in case of a car fire, with medical first response and directing traffic.

The wreck, which shut down Reeves Mill Road just south of Holly Springs Church Road, happened at 10:26 a.m. The road reopened to traffic at 11:45 a.m.

Tate said everyone involved in the wreck was wearing their seat belts. Both drivers were insured.